Tips on Garage Doors When We Go on Vacation

In this week of holidays, repair and installation of all types of automatic garage doors, he wants to give you a series of tips to take into account when going on vacation, some tips that can help you count with more security in the garage door and garage.

What to do with the garage door this Easter?

The most important thing if we are going to go out for a few days to enjoy vacations, with our loved ones, is to take a series of precautions when leaving our home, such as using bolts, alarms, lights, etc ... Every precaution is little to the time to avoid that the friends of the foreign thing, enter our domiciles and garages.

Does our garage door have bolts?

If our garage door has locks , once the car has been taken out of the garage, it is no longer necessary to put the bolts or bolt to the garage door, so we will make it more difficult for friends of others to access it, in case want to force the garage door from outside.

Does the garage door have a motor?

If it has a motor, and we throw the bolts before leaving, for the safety of "Olvido", we should disconnect the motor from the garage door, and you will say, what is it, "security of forgetfulness", because if we remove the locks In the garage door and leave the motor with electricity, it is very likely that at the end of the holidays we do not remember that we have the garage door blocked, and we activate the motor with the garage control, which could cause a breakdown, our garage door installation . Therefore it is convenient that if we put the inner locks of a sectional door, we unplug the motor of the sectional door.

Sliding door motor?

If we have a sliding door, powered by a motor , and we have a pedestrian crossing door, when we go on holiday it costs nothing, to lock the door, with our key we block the sliding motor , we keep the key and on the way back we will do the operation in reverse, we unlock the motor and actuate the command, in this type of motors, sliding doors is not a problem to operate the command, the motor is blocked nothing happens, whether it has electricity or not, since the sliding motors blocking does not work, until we return them to their original manual unlock position.

Do you have light inside your garage?

Buy a programmer, and program it to turn on at certain times, so your garage will seem that there are people inside, another very good option is if you have a sectional door that gives right to the street where you live, is to put a light With motion sensor, apart from helping you when you get home late, it will also turn on if someone or something gets near your garage door.

These are some security measures of your garage door to avoid theft during holiday periods, or to be absent from your home for extended periods of time.

For any doubt about the security of your garage door, you can contact garage door Dayton OH, we will be happy to help you, for prices of locks, light sensors, write on this small form.